Example sentences of "thing [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tosh said he did n't like some things that had been written about her in papers . |
| 2 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 3 | One of the first things that had been done when the police arrived at the house was to examine all windows and doors for signs of forcible entry . |
| 4 | None of these were things that had been known to occupy him on other mornings . |
| 5 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 6 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 7 | Open opposition is strongly implied by his offer in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been said against him . |
| 8 | He also offered in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been done against him , providing that the English returned to their allegiance without treachery . |
| 9 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 13 | Anne pushed the thing that had been her sister away . |
| 14 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 15 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 16 | At roughly the same time Adobe Systems introduced the PostScript page description language which did the one thing that had been though impossible or , at least , impractical ; real time font generation . |
| 17 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 18 | Somewhere beyond , the thing that had been Farley Peters — still locked in the corridor wall — gibbered and scrabbled with monstrous hunger . |
| 19 | And , at last , Cardiff could see that the mutated horror on the stairs was not the thing from the wrecked car , not the thing that had been Barbara 's brother from 1964 . |
| 20 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |